List of hackathons about non-profit in 2016

Solve a data challenge for charity, win great prizes and do your contribution for a better world! This is a unique event where you can use data to solve challenges identified by the charities and a great chance to get mentored by senior leaders in Google, Barclays, University of Cambridge etc. You will be set four challenges to choose from, each related to a charity: Multiple Sclerosis Society, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Impetus-PEF, and World Migration Data by United Nations. You can take as many challenges you like and will be provided with data sets to do so. Each day there will be an optional hour of mentoring with charity leaders and industry experts to support you in building your solutions and you’ll have an option to work from sites at Barclays (Canary Wharf) and Digital Catapult NETV in Sunderland.

Students and teachers! Do you have good ideas for school projects but need help putting them into action? Or do you want to gain more clarity and confidence about your future? The Hack Your Education Master Class teaches students and teachers how to think like futurists, strategize like entrepreneurs, and become "thought leaders" in their field of study. The event is an incubator for student ideas to be put into action! In this program students design an Education Strategy to map their research and resources, and develop a timeline for success.

Ladies in technology! Girls in Tech Ecuador invites you to participate in the discussion group "Women of Matilde". This group aims to commemorate Matilde Hidalgo -- the first woman to graduate from a high school in Ecuador, the first woman to vote in an election in Latin America and the first woman to hold elected office in her country. The discussion will focus on creating fair employment opportunities for women working in technology.

The mission of this demo day weekend event is to unite the women of the tech community, giving them a space to meet, innovate, and create together. Bringing more than just awareness of the gender gap in technology by doing something about it. Attendees will be asked to form teams consisting of programmers, designers, testers, and idea people. The teams will build a product idea from scratch using any technology, they will consult with mentors throughout the day to ask questions and get feedback. At the end of the weekend, the teams will demo their product to a panel of judges from the community.

The Stupid Hackathon is organized purely for fun! Your projects will be purely judged by hilarity, uselessness, and fun factor! Work diligently on projects that make no sense at all. Make something we will all regret!

The Crowdfunding Hackathon is inviting all creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs to make their dream project come true. Zoomaal, in partnership with The Mohammed bin Rashid Fund for SMEs (DubaiSME), is organizing this full-day event for sharing its most effective tactics on creating and marketing fundraising campaigns and wants you to be part of it!.

DataMission and the World Food Programme (WFP) are partnering up for a hackathon that will help in the fight against hunger. This event invites all data scientist, developers, non-profit organisations, experts in the hunger issues, marketers, and anyone who is willing to join their skills for a good cause! The topics covered at the hackathon include: Data analysis for developing more detailed and higher quality estimates on food security, Data-driven products to build a software, webpage or mobile application to encourage more survey participation, and Data visualization to enable decision making.

This is AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series. The Challenge is Simple. AngelHack’s nonprofit arm, Code For A Cause, is challenging superhero coders to build a technology that will have a positive impact on the world, people, or environment. No matter your age or skill level, just come and create projects that are innovative, and have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale and get the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for the Annual Global Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive pitch training!

This is AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series. The Challenge is Simple. AngelHack’s nonprofit arm, Code For A Cause, is challenging superhero coders to build a technology that will have a positive impact on the world, people, or environment. No matter your age or skill level, just come and create projects that are innovative, and have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale and get the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for the Annual Global Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive pitch training!

DragonHack is the first slovenian university hackathon, that is part of Major League Hacking. Students are invited to work together to build awesome projects in just 24 hours. Mentors from technical faculties and companies, and the newest technologies will be supplied. There is no entry fee, but you need to have a valid student card from any faculty or university.